pracht-kerl

Updated: July 21, 2025

The maids also came to look; and the buxom cook, with her spotless apron and bare arms akimbo, was drawn from her kitchen, and pledged her culinary honour that such a pracht-kerl should be served up in her very best style. The angler who is insensible to this sort of indirect flattery through his fish does not exist.

Henry Van Dyke - Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness